Urban Anthropology : a guide to library resourcesContents: Starting PointsThe guide to Anthropology dictionaries/encyclopedias will help if you need explanations of anthropological terminology or theory. To find overviews/introductory texts on urban anthropology topics try the following: - Anthropology of cities : imagining and theorizing the city (1996) [electronic]
[A review of anthropological literature on urban theory and the locating of anthropological studies within the broader context of urban studies. Published in vol. 25 of the Annual Review of Anthropology. Also available in print format]
Theorizing the city : the new urban anthropology reader (1999) [print ]
[Essays on the cultural & structural forces that shape the city emphasising developments in the field during the 1990s through twelve ethnographies of major cities. A book review is linked here]
Urban life : readings in urban anthropology (1996) [print]
[Anthropologists and social scientists provide an introduction to the study of human beings and their cultural institutions in cities]
Urbanization and the global perspective (2003) [electronic]
[A publication which discusses what the global perspective means within anthropology, and how it affects urban anthropological research. Published in vol. 32 of the Annual Review of Anthropology. Also available in print format]
Finding Books Using The Library CatalogueBooks can be found by searching the library catalogue. Keyword searching is probably the best way of identifying material, and your results will be maximised by using keyword searching techniques such as truncation and Boolean searching, and by incorporating subject headings into your search where appropriate. Here are some examples on how to construct searches: - "urban anthropology"
- (cities or urban) and (migrat? or immigra?) and sociol?
- skey cities and (anthropolog? or ethnograph?)
- (skey "urban ecology" or skey "urban renewal") and adelaide
Finding Journal Articles using Databases & BibliographiesJournal articles can be found through databases listed in the Electronic Databases for Anthropology guide - Sociological Abstracts, Geobase, Academic OneFile and Academic Search Premier are probably the best starting points for finding articles written on urban anthropology topics. In addition, there are printed bibliographies of books & journal articles in the library which are probably most useful for identifying earlier material on Urban anthropology or more broadly on Cities or Urban sociology Web ResourcesThe following are starting points for resources on the Web Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA)
[SUNTA, a section of the American Anthropological Association. Incorporating the former Society for Urban Anthropology (SUA), SUNTA remains interested in all important urban topics of ethnicity, homelessness and squatting, migration, deindustrialisation, neighbourhoods, space and the like. SUNTA's mission, however, is also directly concerned with theories, problems, processes, and institutions of urban, national and transnational life] Urban Ecology Australia
[Located in Adelaide, Urban Ecology Australia Inc (UEA) is a non profit community group committed to the evolution of socially vital, economically viable and ecologically sustaining human settlements - ecological cities - through education and example]
Last update: 18 June 2009 Helen Attar
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